If you haven't heard the latest news... you've probably been enjoying a nice long vacation! If you have been, here is the latest tidbit:
Everyone's voting power is going to drop from 40 votes over a 5 day rolling period to 5 votes over a 5 day period. This doesn't mean total votes, but voting power. It is a slight but important difference. Is this ultimately good news for the platform or just another measure that will concentrate all the wealth to the top users?
As it stands right now, there are hundreds of good posts that never get noticed... is having less "powerful votes" the answer for getting them noticed?
My opinion is probably not...
Having fewer votes will cut down on the payouts to bots that are programmed to upvote anything particular authors release, but less curation rewards will ultimately mean less rewards for those particular authors. That in itself isn't a bad thing. However, the real difference will likely be felt with actual human curators.
Human curators will no long spend their time and votes scanning through the endless posts trying to find diamonds in the rough that likely will never pay out because they don't want to waste one of their precious votes on said posts. Instead, they will only vote on the authors and topics they feel very strongly about doing well, why would they not?
It only makes sense if people have a couple votes to use per day in order to maximize rewards, for them to save those votes for the posts they have the most confidence in... The chance is designed to affect the bots, but really who will it affect the most?
To me is seems likely it will mostly affect the ones it was designed to help...
It seems likely that authors who already get very little votes will get even less now, and human curators who do a good job looking for good posts that get very little love will abandon that strategy as it benefits them very little financially.
Lets hear from the community... is this a good idea or a bad one? Should we consider something like 20 votes over a 5 day period? What say you?
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